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What is the name of the French monarch who was ruler during the time of the revolution and is thought to have caused it with his economic policies?
William IV
Winston XX
Anthony III
Louis XVI
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What is the name of Louis XVI's infamous wife who threw lavish parties while her people starved?
Rachel Duchense
Marie Antoinette
Rigel DuPrintemps
Marzia du Nice
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Which of the following terms refers to the French monarchical system which was abolished during the French Revolution?
Heredieaules
Ancien Regime
Maximus Ulien
Prisque du Premier
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Much of the economic hardships which caused the French Revolution were themselves a result of what war in the mid 1700s?
The Opium War
The Ten Years' War
The Seven Years' War
The Boer War
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Starting in 1789, what governmental body was created with three ruling groups in order to give a voice to all French citizens?
The Cinnabar Room
The Estates-General
Omnibus Orel
Florens Haulle
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What group of people made up the first level of the Estates-General?
The commoners
The nobility
The clergy
The merchants
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What group of individuals formed the second estate of the Estates-General?
The commoners
The nobility
The clergy
The merchants
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What group of individuals formed the third estate of the Estates-General?
The commoners
The nobility
The clergy
The merchants
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The Fourteenth of July in 1789 marked a huge victory for the French revolutionaries after they managed to capture what infamous prison?
The Ruillem
The Marseillaise
The Cambrio
The Bastille
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What is the name of the 1789 document written by Montesquieu to help guide French civil rights in their era of revolution?
The Declaration of a Free France
The Article of Salvation
The Charter of Human Progress
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man was also drafted by what American revolutionary?
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
John Adams
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What was the ultimate fate of Louis XVI?
He fled to England.
He was executed.
He became Chancellor of France in 1798.
He was forced to a life of manual labor.
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In 1789, a women's march on what French city caused the monarchy to return its court to Paris?
Verdun
Nice
Paris
Versailles
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In what year of the Revolution did France officially become a republic?
1792
1795
1799
1804
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The Battle of Valmy was an important event as it proved the new revolutionized France was able to repel the invading forces of what nation?
Prussia
Russia
Hungary
Great Britain
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What infamous dictator claimed power during the French Revolution by consolidating authority through the French National Convention?
Renault Marie
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jacques Hebert
Maximilian Robespierre
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Because of the many executions which occurred during it, Robespierre's brief rule is known by which nickname?
The Gallows Waltz
The Reign of Terror
The Red Versailles
The Era of Cruel Justice
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What new execution device was most-often associated with Robespierre's regime as their favorite killing method?
The guillotine
The gallows
The iron maiden
The Lambert Sickle
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The infamous Jacobins of the French Revolution were originally founded under what name?
The French Pacifists' Union
The Society of Friends of the Constitution
The Organization of the Climate of Kindness
The French Peace Party
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What was the name of the organization which Robespierre used to control power and enact his tyranny?
The Committee for Societal Improvement
The Committee of Democratic Justice
The Committee of Public Safety
The Civil Complaints Resolution Board
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In an attempt to secularize their society, France temporarily abandoned the Gregorian Calendar in favor of what?
The Vernalus Calendar
The Napoleonic Calendar
The Republican Calendar
The Parisian Calendar
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What is the name of the violent uprising in which figures overthrew and executed Robespierre and his associates?
The Louisian Reaction
The Edwardian Reaction
The Thermidorian Reaction
The Constantinian Reaction
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Following the death of Robespierre, what council seized political power?
The League for Posterity
The Directory
The National Review Board
The Diet
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The Directory was in turn thrown out of power after a coup installed what dictator into power?
Marisheaux
Louis XVII
Peter II
Napoleon Bonaparte
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What is the name of the current French national anthem which is based on the events of the revolution?
"La Marseillaise"
"La Rennierre"
"Les Mirulles"
"Le Burser"
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What was the name of the persecuted political party in the French National Convention which desired moderate revolutionary change?
The Montagnards
The Kellbers
The Maveriques
The Girodins
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What was the more radical revolutionary party of the National Convention which persecuted the moderate Girodins?
The Montagnards
The Kellsierre
The Maveriques
The Burgessierre
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This famous painting illustrates the murder of what French revolutionary?
Maximilian Robespierre
Jean-Paul Marat
Jacques Hebert
Richard Springer
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After a scandalous series of arrests, what political party's leaders were forced from the National Convention in 1793?
The Burgessiere
The Montagnards
The Girodins
The Christentists
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The executed revolutionary Jacques Hebert founded what political magazine before his death?
The Crown's Fall
The New Dawn
The Father Duchense
Mrs. Liles' Tattler
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